Legal Support Assistant

HCR Law; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a highly organised Legal Support Assistant to join their Residential Property team in Cambridge. This role is pivotal in providing comprehensive support to fee earners, ensuring smooth operations and excellent client communication. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for detail, strong communication skills, and experience in a client-facing role. With a commitment to fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace, this firm offers a dynamic environment where your contributions are valued, and career progression is encouraged. If you're passionate about making a difference in the legal sector, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

27 days annual leave (plus public holidays)

Bonus scheme

Life Assurance

Scottish Widows Pension Scheme

Healthcare cash-plan

1/3 gym membership contribution

Electric vehicle scheme

Happy People/Perks at Work benefits portal

Cycle to Work scheme

Flu vaccinations

Qualifications

• Experience in a client-facing environment is advantageous.
• Strong communication and organisation skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Drafting and formatting letters, documents, and forms.
• Proactive diary management for allocated fee earners.
• Filtering client queries and managing administrative support.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Client-facing experience

Typing abilities

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Microsoft Teams

Case management systems

Job description

About The Role

We are currently looking for a highly organised individual to fulfil a crucial role in our support staff within our Residential Property team. This team works with a variety of individual and corporate residential and commercial clients.

Responsibilities

Based in our Cambridge office, you will work closely with our Joint Head of Residential Property. The Legal Support Assistant role objective is to provide in-depth business support to the fee earners within the team, including the following responsibilities:

1. Drafting and formatting of letters, documents, and forms; including sale contracts.
2. Being a first point of contact for any administrative and business support requirements for fee earners, anticipating the team's needs where possible.
3. Supporting the file opening process for the team.
4. Assisting with the preparation of all financial transactions as required.
5. Filtering client queries, at times being the first point of contact for clients as well as communicating directly with estate agents.
6. Proactive diary management for allocated fee earners.

About You

As a Legal Support Assistant you will have:

1. Sound knowledge of IT systems including full Microsoft Office suite and Teams.
2. Excellent attention to detail in all aspects of your work, with confident typing abilities.
3. Strong communication and organisation skills.
4. Experience in a client-facing environment would be advantageous.
5. Former experience within a legal/professional services environment would be desirable.
6. Experience in case management systems is preferable but not essential.

The ideal candidate will have existing interest, knowledge or experience in the property sector.

We have the opportunity to hire two candidates for this team, to start between January and April, as the team grows.

About Us

Benefits of working with us as a Legal Support Assistant include:

1. 27 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
2. Bonus scheme
3. Life Assurance
4. Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
5. Healthcare cash-plan
6. 1/3 gym membership contribution
7. Electric vehicle scheme
8. Happy People/Perks at Work benefits portal
9. Cycle to Work scheme
10. Flu vaccinations

Is HCR the smart move for you?

HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

Why HCR people love their jobs

Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.

What career progression will HCR offer you?

HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.

What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 60, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With ten offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons resulted in a full service regional hub being established in the heart of the Waterside innovation area centre of Northampton. Our London and Cambridge continue to grow apace.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients. We are privileged to be an armed forces-friendly organisation.

We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.

A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership.